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And they got it wrong too. Trivial in the software sense merely means there is a known solution, you just have to implement it. Non-trivial means you need to ge
by gaius 9y ago
And they got it wrong too. Trivial in the software sense merely means there is a known solution, you just have to implement it. Non-trivial means you need to generate some novel IP first.
- asax 9y agoGenuinely sorry if I'm being ignorant here, but... by whose definition?
- Bartweiss 9y agoAs far as I can tell, he's borrowing the mathematics sentiment, where "the proof is trivial" doesn't necessarily mean you'll find it easy - it just means that the interesting aspects of the problem have been dealt with and what's left is a simpler or more general case. That said... I've never encountered "novel IP" as the actual standard for 'trivial' in mathematics or CS. It would take a very strong source to convince me that's a formal or most-common-use meaning. (The Wiki page on 'trivial (mathematics)' certainly doesn't offer that meaning.)